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From: BHOLMES@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: KA9Q POP server is broken
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.132601.12744@cs.wayne.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 91 13:26:01 GMT
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Organization: Wayne State University
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I broke out our SNIFFER and found out that the POP server in KA9Q is broken.
Since POP uses TCP, the server should not exspect to see an entire command
in one packet.  TCP is a stream protocol and the server should peice
together incoming packets until a command separator, in this case CRLF,
is received.  The POP server in KA9Q is exspecting an entire command to
be in 1 TCP packet therefore is broken.  I've seen this in several POP server
implementations which is why I mention it here.  FYI